Obtain real estate information from the Land Registry Service

 

The land registration service (ex conservation of mortgages) holds the history of French heritage. Thanks to the publication of acts, it guarantees the security of real estate transactions and makes it possible to verify the situation of a building or a person. Whose? How to proceed?

What is the land registration service used for?

The SPF is an administrative and fiscal institution which depends on the Diep (General Directorate of Public Finances). 354 land registration services are spread over the various French departments.

The SPF registers legal acts relating to a building (judgment, foreclosure, and mortgage).

It provides any user who requests it with information concerning the legal situation of buildings (building, house, apartment, building, land, and tree).

It also delivers information concerning the financial situation of people.

What is land registration?

The houses for sale in Sierra Leone purchase or transfer of a building is subject to publication by a notary. This publicity is centralized by the land registry service which keeps a copy of the deeds. It lists information on real estate and their owners in France such as:

•          Constitutions, transmissions and extinctions of rights relating to buildings

•          Real property rights (direct power that a person exercises over property)

Land registration makes it possible to make all real estate transfers enforceable against third parties. Conversely, a real estate deed that is not published in the land registration service is not enforceable against third parties. This is a frequent case in Corsica where a specific law has been applied for two centuries, allowing a de facto exemption in matters of inheritance tax. Reorganization is underway; the cadastral services of the island of beauty should gradually achieve compliance.

Note that the land registration of the 3 departments of Alsace-Moselle (Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle) is carried out by the land offices responsible for keeping the land register, under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice.

Who can contact the Land Registry Service?

Anyone can contact the land registry for information on buildings.

What information can you get and how do I request it?

You can obtain all the information contained in the mortgage statement which traces the life of the property.

We find there:

•          The name of the successive owners

•          A list of publications

•          A statement of mortgage registrations and the charges that encumber the property

•          The price of the various sales of a building

There is a form for each type of request. It is important that the request for information be formulated very precisely in order to allow the identification of the information requested. In particular, it must include the cadastral references of the parcel concerned.

This service is chargeable. The cost varies according to the elements requested and payment is to be made at the time of filing the request.